By Nimake Earland
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has commissioned a 4.2-kilometer road constructed by Bala Mohammed led administration in Bauchi state.
While commissioning the Gombe-Maiduguri road by-pass on Thursday in Bauchi, Atiku Commended Governor Bala Mohammed, for constructing the road and appreciated his people-driven policies.
Atiku reiterated that states controlled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are performing above par compared to their All Progressives Congress (APC) counterparts.
He called on the federal government to learn from the PDP states.
“Let me start by commending you because you have done very, very excellently well. For the few hours I have been in Bauchi today, I have been impressed by the infrastructural developments that I have personally seen not been told.
“With these infrastructural developments, which range from roads to housing, to primary health clinics, to the renovation loan of our schools for the education of our young ones.
“These programmes that you have implemented and continue to implement, are the bedrock of development be it educational, health care delivery, or any other aspects of development. But, most importantly, these developmental projects have become instruments of economic empowerment.
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“By economic empowerment, they have also created thousands of jobs for our teeming youths. Let me commend you for reducing the unemployment in the state and the country at large because it is this unemployment that creates security challenges that we are currently facing in this country,” he said.
In his remarks, Governor Mohammed explained that the road project which was conceived and executed by his administration was in fulfillment of his campaign promises to the people.
He named the road as: “Alhaji Atiku Abubakar Road.”
According to him “We are here to commission the long-awaited commissioning of the 4.2 kilometers Gombe-Maiduguri road by-pass in Bauchi metropolis. This is a very strategic road by many respects, first, like every other road, it will promote economic activities that will improve the likelihood of the people.
